Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari: Intersecting Lives (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultur) (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) - Softcover

Dosse, Francois

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231145616 ISBN 13: 9780231145619

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In May 1968, Gilles Deleuze was an established philosopher teaching at the innovative Vincennes University, just outside of Paris. Felix Guattari was a political militant and the director of an unusual psychiatric clinic at La Borde. Their meeting was quite unlikely, yet the two were introduced in an arranged encounter of epic consequence. From that moment on, Deleuze and Guattari engaged in a surprising, productive partnership, collaborating on several groundbreaking works, including Anti-Oedipus, What Is Philosophy? and A Thousand Plateaus. Francois Dosse, a prominent French intellectual known for his work on the Annales School, structuralism, and biographies of the pivotal intellectuals Paul Ricoeur, Pierre Chaunu, and Michel de Certeau, examines the prolific if improbable relationship between two men of distinct and differing sensibilities. Drawing on unpublished archives and hundreds of personal interviews, Dosse elucidates a collaboration that lasted more than two decades, underscoring the role that family and history--particularly the turbulent time of May 1968--play in their monumental work. He also takes the measure of Deleuze and Guattari's posthumous fortunes and the impact of their thought on intellectual, academic, and professional circles.

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Review:

Dosse makes Deleuze and Guattari mysterious again.--Scott McLemee "Bookforum "

Dosse has produced a magnificently well-researched double biography.--Terry Eagleton "Artforum "

A comprehensive and polyvocal biography on the lives and work of Deleuze and Guattari.--Thomas Nail "Foucault Studies "

An exhaustive and fascinating account.... As a glimpse into a remarkable period in French intellectual history where politics, philosophy, and literary brilliance coalesced, it is captivating.--Publishers Weekly

This is a massively researched and rewarding book that will attract the attention of all students of Deleuze and Guattari.--Choice

An impressively comprehensive examination of the lives and times of Deleuze and Guattari... Richly filled with biographical and historical detail (and with amusing and often poignant anecdote), Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari: Intersecting Lives represents an inmmense scholarly achievement... Essential reading.--European Legacy

About the Author:

Francois Dosse is a professor at the IUFM Creteil, the Paris Institute for Political Studies, and the Center for Cultural History, University of Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He has published several important books on intellectual history, including History of Structuralism: The Rising Sign, 1945-1966 and History of Structuralism: The Sign Sets, 1967-Present. Deborah Glassman is the author of several works on literature, education, and international development and the translator of Dosse's two books on structuralism.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0231145616
• ISBN 13: 9780231145619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672